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Do you want to think out of the box, thriving on challenges in AI industry and have the desire to solve them? Do you want to work with a world-class team to explore the fast-growing AI hardware opportunities and impact on AI industry?\nWe’re looking forward to you joining us to collaborate, contribute, and revolutionize AI silicon and system.\nDescription \nWe are looking for a world-class Memory Subsystem Architect to join our SoC team at Baidu’s Sunnyvale office. The successful candidate will be a motivated self-starter who will thrive in this highly technical environment. Your job responsibilities as a Memory Subsystem Architect will be providing technical leadership through all phases of Baidu’s AI SoC development, but primarily focused on unified memory space architecture design for Baidu AI accelerator SoC. 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